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 Chapter 5
 Wanting to Escape (4)
 “Whoa.”
 Very naturally, Leslie picked up a sandwich from the tray and sat among the knights.
 “Du- du- duchess!”
 “Shh.”
 The knights around her jumped in surprise, but Leslie put her finger on her lips trying to hide her presence.
 “Let me take a look.”
 The light purple-haired woman in front of Ian was someone she knew well.
 Annabelle Nadit, the unlucky illegitimate child who always came in second behind her son in the sword competition.
 It was said that she was the daughter of Marquis Abdes and of a widow of a fallen aristocrat.
 The widow, Caitlyn Nadit, was known by even Leslie, who had little interest in the social world.
 Because she used to shove her face in every single place and said, ‘if my Annabelle gets recognized as a member of the Marquis…’
 She also remembered that Marquis Abedes suffered greatly because of her shamelessness.
 ‘Poor thing, to be the illegitimate child of Marquis Abedes, there’s no way she can get away from being recognized by her parents.’
 Annabel’s biological father, Marquis Abedes, was an irresponsible person even objectively.
 He didn’t even pay attention to her, as Leslie knew. After Annabelle’s birth, the whiny Caitlyn gave her some pennies because she was annoyed.
 After bumping into her at her first swordsmanship competition, Caitlyn had said bluntly, ‘she doesn’t even look much like me’.
 Even when Caitlyn died and Reid inherited all the property, he (the Marquis) did nothing for his daughter.
 He didn’t even know that she was so hung up on getting first place so she could be recognised as a member of the Marquis family.
 Leslie also knew that Annabelle would visit her son every day and point her sword at him.
 She was not ignorant of the endless challenges from second place to first place because she had her heart for the Duke of Wade before.
 So, she didn’t bother with Annabelle’s constant chase at Ian.
 Wasn’t that the spirit of the sword-bearer?
 However, she was a little bothered when she heard rumors that Annabelle wasn’t even showing the basic manners as an opponent…
 Seeing her politely greet him and calmly draw out her sword, it didn’t seem like that at all.
 “She hasn’t been here for a few days, but now she has come after a long time.”
 The knight answered her comment.
 “Still, I met her yesterday during the escort of the High Priest.”
 Leslie’s eyes lit up with interest and urged him to say more.
 Leslie, hearing about what had happened yesterday, tilted her head.
 The knight spoke as if Annabelle had saved the High Priest, but something was wrong.
 Why did she have to block in front of the High Priest? Or, why did she block in front of Ian?
 Leslie didn’t know since she wasn’t at the scene, but somehow she felt that Annabelle had prevented Ian from getting injured rather than the High Priest.
 Then, the two swords collided.
 ‘You’re moving really well. You’re sharp with your sword.’
 She had seen a fight between the two in a swordsmanship contest, but since it was almost four years ago, the fight between the two now was new to Leslie.
 ‘Wait a minute.’
 More sounds followed.
 ‘Aren’t both of them strangely insincere?’
 Biting her sandwich, her brow furrowed as she eagerly awaited the next round.
 ‘Her back is clear! Ian missed it! Why would he do that?’
 It was only for a brief moment, but there was an opportunity to hit Annabelle’s back, but Ian let the gap pass.
 Of course, Ian wasn’t the only one who wasn’t sincere.
 “Hey, let’s just call it off for today.”
 Even Annabelle roughly dodged his sword a few times before she backed away and said that.
 ‘It’s strange. Clearly, there is room for more encounters. I don’t think she’s tired yet.’
 The other knights might not have noticed, but Leslie knew at once that Annabelle wasn’t doing her best.
 “Don’t use your mean tricks.”
 Ian also noticed Annabelle’s rough movements while narrowing his eyes and speaking softly.
 “I know all of them. Isn’t it one of your 734 despicable moves to suddenly rush in pretending to back off?”
 Leslie clicked her tongue.
 Her son would not have spit out that number 734 randomly. There was no doubt that he really counted.
 “What are you talking about? I didn’t mean to end the match.”
 Annabelle said as she retracted her sword.
 “Tomorrow.”
 “What?”
 “Let’s finish it tomorrow at 7pm.”
 Ian frowned and answered.
 “No. I have a prior appointment.”
 Then, Annabelle clung close to him.
 Ian, who was surprised, quickly drew his sword.
 Annabelle then whispered to him in a very low voice.
 Leslie quickly moved forward to hear, but could barely catch a few words.
 “Don’t go to… Especially…”
 ‘What? What?’
 Frustrated, just as Leslie was about to get up and announce her presence, Annabelle retreated and shouted.
 “How dare you ignore my invitation for a fight! I hope one of your feet falls into the puddle on a rainy day, and the earthworms will crawl in your shoes! And as you yawn on the street, a passing wagon will splash you in the mouth with muddy water!”
 Then, as if she had just appeared, she suddenly left.
 Leslie then laughed in vain.
 ‘You said all kinds of insulting curses and swear words, and that’s what they were? How cute is that?’
 Ian, who was looking at Annabelle’s back, had a very subtle expression on his face.
 Leslie wanted to be interested in her son’s work for the first time in a very long time.
 No, to be exact, she was interested in the strange relationship between her son and his rival.
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 It was ridiculous.
 It must have been some kind of trick.
 There was no way Annabelle would do anything to help him.
 Annabelle was like a migraine that appeared occasionally in his life after simply beating her in the first swordsmanship competition.
 She was kind of like a thing that popped out tenaciously while you were trying to live your life and you couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it.
 “Don’t go to Hibiscus tomorrow night, because something bad might happen to you.”
 The words that Annabelle whispered were an unexpected warning.
 How did she know he had an appointment at a bar called Hibiscus?
 “If you ignore my words and go, keep looking ahead. Especially at the western outer wall.”
 It wasn’t really a secret, but he didn’t know she was digging into his private life.
 As usual, he would have completely ignored it.
 But he kept thinking about it and her back that was like a house made of needles with a lot of poison darts on it.
 At that time, he was busy with the escort, so he couldn’t catch her and talk right away, but her determined expression as she approached his right arm was vivid.
 He would think he was crazy when he heard it, but for the first time, he felt that someone was protecting him.
 If he thought about it rationally, it couldn’t be, but the feeling felt instinctive, so he couldn’t help it.
 “Have you changed your strategy? What’s the big picture?”
 Ian finally decided.
 He had decided to only listen to half of her warning.
 He would still go to Hibiscus, but he wouldn’t be drinking alcohol. He became nervous and looked ahead.
 As Ian was getting ready to go out, he saw Aaron praying in the duke’s garden with his hands folded in reverence.
 “Aaron Rainfield?”
 Ian frowned and asked.
 “What are you doing?”
 “Ah.”
 Aaron replied reverently while his pink hair blew.
 “It’s raining.”
 Annabelle’s curse of stepping into a puddle in the rain and getting soaked in muddy water must have been interesting to him again.
 “And I was praying for the poor earthworm. The earthworm’s fate…”
 After giving Aaron a big kick, Ian sighed and strode forward.
 He had the best ability in the Knights Templar, so Ian made him the lieutenant, but his head was a bit unusual.
 Leaving behind Aaron who was wallowing, he sighed and started walking again.
 It was a cloudy day and it looked like it was going to rain.
 On his way downtown on his black horse, he was too conscious of puddles and wagons to ride his horse as usual.
 Whenever such things came into view, Annabelle’s face floated in his mind.
 It had been like that since he was fourteen when she started getting entangled with him.
 “Well, finally, the final of this sword contest!”
 At the age of 14, the face of that girl in the final was somewhat evil.
 What stayed in those clear blue eyes was a goal in life.
 Ian, who grew up to be a young master of a noble family and was famous for his swordsmanship geniusness, encountered such clear hostility for the first time.
 No matter how competitive she was, she didn’t have to go that far.
 Nevertheless, his first impression of the girl standing upright with the sword in her hand was quite pretty.
 Apart from the old, cheap training clothes and the stiff face staring at him.
 So when he beat her and won the championship, it bothered him a bit.
 Defeated by him, she stared while gritting her teeth.
 However, it was possible to lose to the opponent who could win.
 But Anabelle Nadit, that girl’s first impression was definitely good.
 Except, the good first impression didn’t last a full day.
 Since then, he had heard all the swearing that existed in the world from Annabelle Nadit.
 Every day, she came to bother him, ran to him in all sorts of mean ways, and did everything that was possible.
 Eight years ago, it was enough time to blur even the good first impression that was stuck in his mind.
 But, he couldn’t figure out why she kept appearing in his thoughts these days.
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 One day, as usual, Annabelle remembered the memories of her previous life.
 It was revealed that she has been reincarnated as the second most popular character in a novel.
 She also did all kinds of bad things to the male lead, and in the end, she is the person who will end up in prison!
 ‘In the end, I’ll get caught. It’s crazy!’
 Anabelle begins to save Ian from danger by intercepting the conspiracies that were laid out one by one to prevent her impending doom.
 But in the process, she caught the attention of some unexpected people…
 “Oh my, that’s the spirit of chivalry our family pursues! I like that a lot!”
 Ian’s mother’s eyes began to sparkle at her.
 “Would you like to be my partner to the opera?”
 After saving Ian, the prince keeps flirting…
 “Ian, I’ve decided to quit being your rival and live a new life.”
 “A new life?”
 “To stop paying attention to a man like you who’s always up and down, marry a man with no character, and live a normal life.”
 “Who’s the opponent? And why am I up and down?”
 The male lead, Ian, keeps obsessing over me for some reason.
 “Why do you not talk harshly to me these days…? Do it again.”
 Everyone just seems to be a little weird!
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 This novel is also known as The Schoolgirl Secret Agent
 She is an international ace agent,An amazing doctor, God of Assassination, However due to a box she accidentally rebirthed and became an ordinary junior high school student. Weak and incompetent, That scum woman wants to put her head into the toilet. The gambling father, borrowed a lot of money and now they are being chased by loan sharks for debt? There is also a group annoying people in her life. The reborned Yunxiao sneers: I want to know how to write the dead words! She returned from the wind, high-profile attack, if people dared to bully me, they are courting death!
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 Song Yuan accidentally picked up a 5-year-old child.
 The child has bright eyes, chiseled features, and prideful demeanor. He referred to himself as “this prince” and his mannerism was wild, cool, and stuck up.
 “This prince will never eat such lowly food!”
 “How dare you flirt with other men behind the back of my imperial father?”
 “He insulted this prince and you sided with him? This prince will sentence his entire clan to death!”
 Song Yuan was very disturbed. The DNA test had confirmed that the child was, indeed, her son, but why did he act like he was delusional?
 More importantly, who was the father of the child?
 The prince was going mad from worrying; Imperial Father, if you don’t come soon, Imperial Mother is really going to cheat on you!
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 Lin Cha enjoyed all good luck in life before the age of sixteen. Her father was rich, her mother was a well-known pianist, her elder brother was a popular star and she was their little princess.
 But after her sixteenth birthday, her life changed dramatically.
 She choked on water, vomited anything she ate which cost more than ten yuan. There were Alipay malfunctions, the bank card password suddenly showed error as if God of Fortune was hostile to her.
 The delicate little princess had to fight to survive.
 Until one day, Lin Cha saw the famous school bully studying in her grade. Above his head were three big words in gold “God of fortune”
 Lin Cha secretly observed him for a while and determined that this boy was really the God of Fortune hidden in the world. So she brought fruits and flowers to him, and seriously asked, ” Can I touch your aura of fortune?”
 Min Jingfeng: “…”
 While staring at the aura of fortune, Lin Cha reluctantly handed flowers and fruits to him. “If not, maybe later.”
 The god of fortune vs the soft sweet little princess
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 Everyone believes Lin Zhao Xi’s a genius.
 Only she knows she’s looking back on years of experience in math competitions as a basis to “cheat”.
 Until one day, her idol quietly looks at her.
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 Time and space overlap, returning thrice.
 — The past can change you.
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 Wu! Eat your dreams!
 Shao Lingheng is the most perfect dish for Du Yan.
 Here is the perfect recipe for cooking nightmares, also known as “How to be a qualified villain boss.”
 Male lead: I will follow your thoughts and take away your power, just to keep you with me.
 Male lead: You hate this dynasty, then as you wish, I will ruin it for you.
 Male lead: If I can always haunt you after becoming a ghost, then I am willing.
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 It’s so much trouble to fill one’s stomach!
 As the only bloodline left by the Beast Boqi in a low-level energy plane, Du Yan, after awakening, fell into the tragic situation of not having enough to eat every day. Until he met Shao Lingheng, the movie emperor who was too deep into his roles and was troubled by nightmares every night.
 But you never know, the things happened were unexpected.
 Shao Lingheng: That man is the cinnabar mole in my heart, white moonlight in the sky. He has paid a lot for me.
 Du Yan: Wait, are we not on the same channel?
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 Fu Yao’s father, Fu Chengyan, has been vegetative for more than ten years and suddenly woke up one day.The doctor who witnessed all this sighed: People wake up, but they turn crazy!
 Fu Chengyan, who had been in the cultivation world for two thousand years, went back to his own world. When he saw her daughter again, he found her with short hair, possessing very old clothes, and having a pitiful look due malnutrition.
 Feeling guilty, Fu Chengyan wanted to know her daughter’s true thoughts in order to compensate her. He then read her inner world with mind reading.
 “It’s was not easy to raise myself already, and now I have to raise a dad with a brain problem… My life is too difficult.”
 “It seems that the scholarship I am receiving is not enough.”
 “It’s better to sell the first place in the school to that person.”
 “Isn’t the second-placer a silly girl? Let’s sell the second-place to the third-placed silly girl also…”
 “How much was the prize for the oral English contest?”
 “Although Dad has a problem with his brain, he still looks so handsome. Is the rich woman next door still thinking about him? How…”
 Fu Chengyan: Thank you for being a filial daughter!
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 This is the story of the Phoenix Vidyarāja and a Grand Demon just awakened from Hell.
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 On the ancient battlefield, two armies were standing in stalemate. On one side were the Vajras, the Arhats, the Gods and the Buddhas from the Realm of Gods. On the other side were all the of monsters and demons from the Blood Sea in Hell.
 The personification of that Grand Demon leaped forward, holding a long sword across his chest. He flew across the battlefield, insolently cutting in halves the eleven Phoenix Bone Arrows, each of which was enough to destroy the world.
 Then, he arrived in front of the Phoenix Vidyarāja, who was standing high above the masses:
 “Your Majesty, please don’t move—”
 “I didn’t come for the war. I came to propose to you.”
 Phoenix was the Buddha’s inexorable doom for thirty-thousand years, while Zhou Hui was Phoenix’s redemption that could free him from the fate of his eternal life.
 After hundreds of thousands of years of endless light and shadow, this handsome yet devilish man finally emerged from Hell,
 To bring the Phoenix Vidyarāja away from the gandah-gajah Kingdom of Buddhism and the boundless lotus sea.
 “Let me follow you to that world. For you, I’ll be invincible forever—”
 You’re my shore after swimming across hundreds of miles of water. You’re my destination after traveling through thousands of miles of land.
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 A long time ago he made a promise on the ice field where death and snow were intertwined.
 Years later, Necromancer Burris worked very hard to finally break the curse of the ancient gods and let the imprisoned Skeleton King leave the Marsh of the Dead and return to the human world.
 As a token of gratitude for fulfilling the promise, the mage not only regained his youth but accidentally gained something else –
 A love story with a higher undead demigod, an infernal being?
 Yes.
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 In Chen Kingdom, money is everything. Male or female, you can have as many partners as you want as long as you got the money. The true sense of equality between the sexes.
 However, I don’t really like being called Master. Though having marrying several childes with fames and being addressed as “Master” I enjoy such a poor position that is only a little bit higher than the stone lions guarding in front of Li Mansion.
 The first Childe is pleasing to the eye but I the Master never get the chance to lay a finger on him…
 The second Childe forbids my every chance of squandering…
 The third Childe and fourth Childe takes delight in fighting and quarrelling…
 The fifth Childe forces me to drink decoction, all types of it and all day long…
 Even the servant girl Lian’er can give me a cold shoulder. “Get out of the way, Master. You block out the sunshine.” She would say.
 Gloomy, upset…In fact, I just want to live a simple life with greasy chicken to eat every day, handsome guys to flirt with…but even a dream life insignificant as this takes time and quite some efforts.
 Alas! Life is tough on me, a master about to get pregnant!
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 Lu Li transmigrates into a modern world of Pokémon, armed with the wisdom of a hundred cultivation techniques—only to discover that farming is actually more effective than cultivating immortality.
 And with that, the Pokémon world starts to spiral into chaos.
 When Pokémon Breeders see energy cubes now being called "elixirs," the entire Breeder Association declares that Pokémon breeding as a field no longer makes sense.
 Ghost-Type Champion: "I once told him that my ghost army was unstoppable. He just laughed and said, ‘Ghost-types are still spirits,’ then pulled out the Myriad Souls Banner."
 Master Botanist: "I thought I was the best at growing plants… but even his Pokémon are better at it than me."
 Groudon watches in stunned silence as a Swampert—standing atop a Bastiodon—disappears into the sky.
 Years later, as Arceus awakens from its slumber and surveys the state of the world, it falls into deep contemplation.Show more
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 Ji Ling transmigrated into the world of a book and has become an 18-year-old aristocrat of the same name in the Interstellar Empire. In order to get another chance at life, he must play his role perfectly, love the Imperial Emperor without second thoughts, and act as an obstacle to the shou. He has to use his own sinister schemes to bring out the shou’s noble perfection.
 He worked hard to play his character… 
 Towards the main lead, Imperial Emperor, love without second thoughts and sacrifice his life for him. 
 Towards villain number 1, Duke, repay evil with good and get his cooperation in dealing with the main shou. 
 Towards villain number 2, Marshal, sacrifice himself to help both of them and get his cooperation in dealing with the main shou. 
 Towards villain number 3, Speaker of the House, give heart and soul to help each other to get his cooperation in dealing with the main shou.
 In order to deal with the main character, he used all available resources and gathered all available forces. Every time when the main shou was forced into a wall, he’d “fall short one step” and let himself be mercilessly slapped in the face. In the end, he was turned into a “victim of his own schemes”, becoming the scapegoat of the shou and dying to save the male lead.
 Just when he thought he could finally leave and enjoy a good life…
 The system said: The world collapsed after you died. Now sending you back to the initial point when you first transmigrated. Please do the mission again. Friendly reminder ~ both male and female villains have been reborn, please work hard and continue your efforts. The plot must be brought back on track. I have high hopes for you!
 Ji Ling had to do the mission one more time, just that … 
 Villain Duke: How could anyone not love such a cute little thing, hiding his soft heart under a pretentious facade? 
 Villain Marshal: He is not as arrogant and domineering as he looks. In fact, his heart is brighter and kinder than anyone else. 
 Villain Speaker of the House: You are my faith, my everything. I am forever willing to stand by your feet and clear your obstacles. 
 Ji Ling: You all shouldn’t love me. I love His Highness. I will always only love him alone! 
 Male Emperor: What a coincidence, I love you too. 
 Ji Ling: … I have a sentence ****, and I must say it now.
 # ML and villains are fighting for me every day, and I just want to retire and go home. #
 1V1，HE。
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 Li Xiandao obtained the ancient Bank of the Universe but now the bank was totally empty and had no treasures at all. The only thing it had were a bunch of debts. 
 – The Eternal Celestial King, borrowed a supreme celestial artifact and will pay back two pieces after 3,000 years. He will pay an additional piece for every 1,000 years after the expiry date! 
 – Moon Celestial, loaned a high-quality face, returned after 10,000 years. If overdue, she will pay with her life! 
 -Time Immemorial Sage loaned 10,000 years in life from the Bank of the Universe in order to break through. After he breaks through, he will pay back 10,000 years. If late, he must pay back ten times the amount! 
 Li Xiandao looked at these debts and at the empty Bank of the Universe. He made his mind up to become a true expert, to find all these supreme beings to get back the overdue debts one by one! 
 A powerless mortal had became the biggest creditor in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and even the entire Celestial World!
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